FC Dallas forward Blas Perez (7) kicks the soccer ball away from the goal area as Rapids midfielder Marcelo Sarvas (11) closes in during the second half as FC Dallas hosted the Colorado Rapids on Friday evening, April 10, 2015.

All the Rapids wanted entering their Friday road game against FC Dallas was a goal.

Sure, a win was something the Rapids wanted, too. But you can’t win without scoring goals, and in the second minute, rookie forward Dominique Badji finally came through to end the team’s 601-minute goal drought, scoring off a beautifully placed pass from Dillon Powers that sailed to the left of Dallas goalkeeper Chris Seitz.

One goal. And then another. And another. And one more.

“It felt great. It was a huge weight off my shoulders and a huge weight off of everyone on the team,” said Badji, who is from Senegal. “Honestly, everybody on the team knew that after the first one went in, a lot more were going to come.”

The Rapids clobbered Dallas, 4-0, stopping their 18-game winless streak and sending a statement to those who considered them a lost cause, even this early in the season. The Rapids — now 1-1-3 — had last scored on Oct. 11, 2014.

“I think getting that early goal really helped us,” Powers said. “To get that second and keep adding on was a great start for us.

“I think we were really confident. We lost last week, but we had a lot of chances. We felt like we were just knocking on the door.”

They earned a difficult road win against their former coach, Óscar Pareja, while without their current coach, Pablo Mastroeni, who was suspended for this game after being ejected from Saturday’s match against New England for arguing a call.

It also kept them from setting an ignominious record for most consecutive matches without a victory.

“The guys had the confidence for shooting, for doing the plays we were training during the week and the finishing was good,” said Claudio Lopez, the Rapids’ director of soccer, who was coach in place of Mastroeni.

Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin made three saves and recorded his fourth shutout in five games. Captain Drew Moor, who had been sidelined since Aug. 17 after tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament, returned to Rapids lineup, providing a veteran presence in Colorado’s backfield.

In the 43rd minute, it was Powers’ turn to put the Rapids further ahead. He beat Seitz after bringing the ball into near the goal line and rolling it across toward the far post.

Gabriel Torres scored for the Rapids in the 70th minute after Juan Ramirez pivoted at close range and tapped it over to him.

The team’s final goal came in the 85th minute from some 30 yards out from Dillon Serna, who blasted it off his left foot and into the upper left corner of the goal. He had entered the game for Powers just four minutes before.

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